Welcome to Mountaindays.net
This site is all about rock climbing, mountaineering, hill walking & mountain biking in the UK and beyond. Hopefully you will find something of use. The best approach is to dive straight in, browse around and see what you can find. If you'd like a few more pointers then some of the site highlights are listed below.
regards
Giles Thurston
Upcoming articles & new features
Since the launch of the new look site earlier this month, we have been burning the midnight oil trying to make Mountaindays even better!
You can now add comments to articles, use google search to find what you’re looking for and submit your own articles for publication. Over the coming months we are planning a series of articles about the fundamentals of navigation and we have more mountain bike specific reviews and articles in the pipeline.
Gallery Highlights
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The Expedition Team -
Climbing -
On the Ferry to Copacobana -
Winter Wonderland
Latest Articles
Mountain Navigation: Maps, Symbols and Scales
In the first part of our mountain navigation series, we start by reviewing the different map sources available to UK users including online, handheld, paper and computer based.
We then go onto discuss the different scales used on the more popular maps used by UK hill walkers before reviewing the symbols used.
Read 'Mountain Navigation: Maps, Symbols and Scales' in full
Other Recent Articles
Latest Reviews
The Eiger Obsession by John Harlin
The young John Harlin III came of age possessed with the very same passion for risk that drove his father to his death on the North Face of the Eiger. But he had also promised his mother, a beautiful and brilliant young widow, that he would not be an Alpine climber. Harlin moved from Europe to America, and, with an insatiable sense of wanderlust, he revelled in downhill skiing and rock-climbing. For years he successfully denied the siren call of the mountain that killed his father. But in 2005, he could resist no longer. And so it was, that with his nine-year-old daughter, Siena – his very age at the time of his father’s death – and with an IMAX Theatre filmmaking crew watching, John Harlin III set off towards the Eiger…
Read 'The Eiger Obsession by John Harlin' review in full
Other Recent Reviews
Mountains & Routes
UK Mountain Database
The mountain database contains details of all 3000 peaks in UK over 150m. You can browse by area or all the major ticklists including Munros and Wainwrights.
Example peak:
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Route Database
The route database contains details of walks, scrambles, rock climbs, mountaineering routes, ice climbs and alpine routes added by our visitors. Why not log your own routes and share them with others?
Downloads
Why not try one of our desktop wallpapers or Microsoft Windows screensavers from the downloads section?